James and Martha's place!

 Sorry I haven't updated my blog for a while. Life was kinda busy There for a while, it was actually kind of nice. I have a lot of posts to catch up on so I will start with the oldest one first.

We have a couple of great friends who we met when Milt was in under grad. He went to school with James and we started doing things with him and his wife Martha. Martha and I hit it off right away and became instant friends. Then they moved to Philly for medical school one year before we moved.  Now we live just about 4 hours away from them assuming we don't hit traffic (which almost never happens on the east coast), So we decided to visit them right before Christmas. It was Sooo much fun to see them and we had a great time too! They took us around Philly and we were able to see so many neat things there. We went to independence hall and we were able to see the liberty bell! Very cool! they also took us to New York for a day, which was awesome all except the part where it was freezing and Shawn started screaming about half way through and didn't stop, poor thing. Needless to say the kids didn't enjoy that part of our trip very much, but I thought it was awesome! We didn't have a lot of time, but were able to see some really cool things. We took a ferry across from New Jersey and passed the statue of liberty on the way, that was cool! Then we hopped on the subway and went to were the Temple is. It was really neat to see that, It was so different from any other temples I've seen. It was just right there when we came up from the subway and it wasn't real noticeable because it kinda blends in with the rest of the buildings there, Martha had to actually point it out to me because I didn't see it right off. We ate at a really yummy pizza place that I can't remember the name of and I don't know exactly where any of these things were so I'm glad we had people with us who had been there before because I would have been lost long before we ever got to this point. Anyway, then we decided to walk through central park, it was fun to see the big fountain and there were a bunch of horse and buggies and we saw people Ice skating. It was fun to see some snow too because we haven't had any in Virginia. Then we walked over to see Rockefeller center. We didn't stop any were very long, We couldn't really with the insane crowds and Shawn screaming his head off, But we saw the window displays  at Saks as we passed and the big Christmas tree that looks a lot bigger in movies but was still fun to see. We were going to go to Macy's, but between Shawn and all the crazy people we decided just to walk by times square, Hop back on the subway, and head home. Shawn stopped crying after we got on the subway thank goodness. I don't blame him for screaming, He had so many clothes on he couldn't move, it was cold, and he was tired and couldn't sleep. We were able to see the statue of liberty all lit up on the way back too, so that was awesome! We also visited an Amish community in a little town called intercourse! He He! It Was really a lot of fun. Elli loved Martha, (I don't blame her because Martha is great!) and by the time we left she was even pretty comfortable with James. Thank you both so much for having us and for showing us around!    

We don't have Pics of New York yet because we were stupid and forgot our camera, but luckily the other cute couple that went with us had theirs so I will add them later.